gross
UK /ɡɹəʊs/ · US /ɡɹoʊs/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms grosser grossest grosses grossing grossed
- adjective remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive. “a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence; a gross insult”
- adjective (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts. “gross domestic product; gross income; gross weight”
- adjective (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed. “gross anatomy”
- adjective (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust. “I threw up all over the bed. It was totally gross.”
- adjective Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- adjective (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- adjective (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- adjective (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- noun Twelve dozen = 144. “We need to order three gross of torx screws for next week.”
- noun The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted.
- noun The bulk; the mass.
- verb (transitive) To earn money, not including expenses. “The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.”
- proper noun A surname from Middle English, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”).
- proper noun A village in Nebraska, having a population of two as of 2010.
Synonyms
serious flagrant shameful appalling egregious unmitigated whole entire overall total aggregate macroscopic disgusting gro grody grotesque grotty nasty revolting yucky 144 revenue receipts porcine megascopic arrant complete consummate double-dyed everlasting
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
* As a Jewish and German surname, from groß (“great, large”). The Jewish surname was influenced by Hebrew גדול (“big, large”), hence the Hebraicization Gadol.
* As an English surname, from the noun and adjective gross, a doublet of above.
The village is named after Ben Gross, who kept a general store there.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." Shak.
- adjective Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
- noun The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. "The gross of the enemy." Addison.
- noun sing. & pl.
Etymology [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, Grogram.]
Etymology [F. gros (in sense 1), grosse (in sense 2) See Gross, a.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “gross”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details